Category: Epochal Shifts
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Virtual and real
Sitting in Pitlochry’s Festival Theatre today (after seeing My Fair Lady last night) having coffee with Luke and reading The Scotsman; was treated to a sparkling interview with John Berger in the centre supplement. Berger is like Michael Polanyi. One of those hugely influential writers to a generation of readers but who, for some reason,…
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Reflections on the nature of slow inexorable change
My first visit up to the ‘all seeing’ Castle Hill in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, yesterday with Mark to shoot a video introduction to an international variant of one of our MBA modules, but this doubled nicely as a video blog on my current research. Particularly keen to share thoughts on the nature of slow change and…
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Theory on stage
“Theatre and theory are both contemplative pursuits” and the words themselves “come from the same root” (Fortier, 1997). Theory abounds. But ‘to theorise’ isn’t ‘to be’. Life named by the theoretical description isn’t real existence in the here and now. John Berger in A Fortunate Man offers up “…patients are inordinately relieved when doctors give…
